Intel has finally shared final details of its new Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra Series 2 mobile chips.
The Core Ultra series is graduating to Series 2 as Intel finally launched its next-gen Lunar Lake mobile CPUs. These new chips made their first appearance at Computex 2024, and are said to offer improved performance paired with a substantial reduction in power consumption compared to Meteor Lake. In fact, the new Core Ultra 200V series is now claimed to be the most efficient family of x86 processors ever.
As per Intel, these new chips offer up to 50% lower power consumption thanks to the revamped architecture. The entire lineup comes with four Skymont efficient (E) cores and four Lion Cove performance (P) cores. However, instead of delegating low-power tasks to the E-cores, most tasks now run on the E-cores with Lunar Lake. Essentially the P-cores are only used when a boost of performance is required.
By disabling Hyperthreading, Intel has managed to further optimize the P-cores for better Power, Performance and Area (PPA). According to the company, Hyperthreading duplicates certain tasks, sharing or dividing up others between the threads. This can lead to mixed results depending on what kind of work your CPU is handling and may require more transistors, which can lead to more power consumption. There’s a new low-latency fabric within the chipset that reduces latency between all the cores, as well as DRAM.
